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iPhone to Support VPN and Quick Look for Word and Excel Files

June 22, 2007 by in Apple with 5 Comments

Now this is one of those “friend of a friend” rumors and I cant vouch for its authenticity, but it is rumored that the iPhone will support OS level VPN and Quick Look for Word and Excel Files.

The iPhones will have the standard OSX VPN client when they ship next week. This will allow connecting to Macintosh and Windows VPN Servers on L2TP or PPTP over IPSEC. The client is very simple and will be set up from its own settings pane. Cisco PIX VPN connectivity is a little blurry as some configurations work with the default OSX client as it does in the Macintosh client, others do not. Cisco is rumored to be working on a VPN Client for the iPhone as well as Soft Phone integration into its latest Call Manager Server but that is a long way off, if at all.

There are also reports of email functionality of IMAP over SSL

It is also rumored that the iPhone will borrow Leopards “Quick Look” feature and will be able to view Microsoft Word and Excel Files but not edit them.

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  • Daniel

    I cant wait for the first round of problems with this device. Ala the first incarnation of the MacBook Pro – single core.

    I mean I love Apple, but….

  • http://awarmgun.net/ Ian Adams

    It is demonstrated that the version of Mail.app that’s on the iPhone will open Word and Excel files, but it’s still unknown if this is extended to other apps as well.

    http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiphone/guidedtour.html

    @ Daniel: I’ve actually never had a problem with 1st-gen Apple products, and I’ve owned 3 of them. (One of which — my iMac G4 800 — I still have.) So I don’t really think that there will be any problems. Especially with the amount of testing that has apparently gone into the device. It’s high-profile enough of a device that Apple would be stupid to not thoroughly test it. Not to mention that they don’t want the device to enter the market with problems that will get the device laughed out of town, a la the Newton.

  • http://awarmgun.net/ Ian Adams

    And to exemplify the amount of testing that’s gone into this device:

    http://mobilitytoday.com/news/007758/iPhone_testing_public

    I test software for a living, and that sort of intense real-world ad-hoc testing is practically unheard of here. That’s why I don’t think that it’s going to have first-round problems, like some people anticipate.

  • Annon

    I’m just waiting for them to figure out its not a good idea to have a fragile screen as the entire side of your phone.

  • chad

    SSH!!!! is that so much to ask! give me a f’in terminal client!

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